Salon.com reviewer Polly Shulman declared that "the Holdfast tetralogy offers a fascinating look back at the permutations of the feminist imagination in recent years, and it underlines the ideals and challenges faced by feminists ..."[1]
Awards
The entire series was inducted into the Gaylactic Spectrum Hall of Fame in 2003.
Motherlines and Walk to the End of the World won a retrospective
James Tiptree, Jr. Award, and The Conqueror's Child won the award in 1999.[2]
The Furies was nominated for the 1994
Lambda Literary Award for science fiction and fantasy.[3]
Mohr, Dunja M. Worlds Apart: Dualism and Transgression in Contemporary Female Dystopias. Jefferson, NC, McFarland, 2005. [extensive chapter on the Holdfast series]